There was an article in Washington Post a few weeks ago about the cost or running lights in a room when you're gone. The article said it was no more than a couple pennies per day, and the calculations work out.
Of course there soon won't be any pennies (in the US), and I turn off the lights anyway.
What could possibly go wrong? Well, that was anticipated in a 1963 SciFi story in Analog magazine (where else?): Walt and Leigh Richmond, "Where I Wasn't Going". Read it here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cach...
Well, if super intelligence does come from an LLM, lilq1d will be wearing his sombrero on his waist.
I believe what the OP is saying is that this
"The mods all became power-trippers obsessed with closing questions and keeping people in line, rather than the original purpose of helping people."
This. (Not sure about all the mods, but at least some.)
No, I've not seen pointless questions there. I have seen pointless moderation (closing what I considered to be good questions--and not just mine).
"...Stack Overflow improved moderator efficiency and closed questions more aggressively." I don't know about moderator efficiency, but it got to the point where I could hardly ask a question that wasn't closed by a moderator. I pushed back on one and got it re-opened, but the work to do so left me not wanting to ask another question.
"If you want to study the effects on underwater basket weaving on indigenous gender fluid mollusks....then you pay for it on your own time. I think that might cut a LOT of waste out.....let's try to only train for things that will benefit society and make the student some money after school." Can you say "clueless"? I didn't think so. You're repeating an old saw that wasn't true then, and isn't true now.
The comment says it all. We have not seen the last of these AI-improved scams.
"Trump's America seems bound and determined to become a second-rate tech power." Trump's motto: Make America Little Again.
Apropos of your speed limit argument (which I agree with), I've often said that I'm going to get a ticket for obstructing traffic by refusing to drive more than ten miles per hour over the speed limit.
As should be well known, Kubrick filmed the Moon landings on location.
But think how well vacuum tubes would do up there--you wouldn't even have to encase them, there'd be no need for the tube!
That's as may be, but if Donald died or somehow became obviously incapacitated (meaning something obvious even to MAGA, like he can't get a word out), then it doesn't matter what people think of Vance--he automatically becomes president.
He couldn't do as well as Alan Shepard.
Brain off-line, please wait.
